Album: In Bocca Al Lupo
Artist: Murder by Death
Label: Tent Show
Release date: May 23, 2006
Attempts at comparison: Tom Waits, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,
The Faint, Black Heart Procession, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Circus
Contraption, Dresden Dolls, Gogol Bordello
Adjectives: edgy, rousing, evocative, lawless, hypnotic, foreboading,
bleak, theatrical, macabre
Nouns: Drinking songs, Concept Album, Country-rock, Blue Grass,
Gypsy-rock, American Gothic, Old World, Wild West
Notable Musicians: J. Robbins (Producer: Against Me!, Dismemberment
Plan)
Special Moments: "The Organ Grinder" (intense and evocative)
Literary Comparisons: Cormac McCarthy, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward
Gorey
Past albums: Who Will Survive & What Will Be Left of Them
Websites: http://www.murderbydeath.com
and
http://www.myspace.com/murderbydeath